On Tuesday, October 18, 2005 4:08 PM [PDT], Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Leigh: >> When I lived in Vermont we closed off the whole house except >> for rooms that were continually in use... > > that's much more difficult than living without heat in California. > Honestly, it feels colder @ 40 degrees & raining than I remember feeling @ +10 degrees & dry. The dampness penetrates & neutralizes the insulatiing properties of just about everything. However, although it is true that I've never needed to use a dipstick heater or take my car battery inside at night, and the foam in the seat of the car doesn't freeze into a substance that resembles concrete when sat upon, a few homeless folks have died from hypothermia over the past couple of years in Santa Cruz county, and Pneumonia is quite common among people with respiratory problems, the homeless, elderly, and disabled. Leigh
